American Soldiers Burning Bodies of Taliban Fighters

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Uh oh! Seems to me that some US troops are going to be in serious trouble. It's sad that some sink to the terrorists' level. *shakes head*

That is terrible. And personally, I don't see where Americans can possibly think that we have the leverage to say that "they" are the "terrorists" in all this. It seems the height of hypocrisy to me.

The US is trying to draw them out into the open to fight so we can hurry up and end the fighting there. What they should have done is gutted a couple of live Taliban fighters with a knife dipped in pig's blood and buried their bodies with the pig carcass. It worked in the Philipines about 100 years ago and it helped stop all terrorist attacks for 40 years!

It's mild compared to the actions of the "free" Government.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?op ... 6&Itemid=1

Lets face it, the US is one BIG terrorist organisation.

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Unfortunately any good army needs pathologically agressive characters and bullies to work right and the work they do are likely to turn them into one, what we need to work on is effective monitering and to limit the bullying. Unfortunately for young vulnerable recruits a lot of the superiors are amongst the worst bullies and execerbate the situation. The army needs to be physical and the trooops will and should be pushed to the limit. Unless we bring in the draft which im opposed to i dont see how we can increase membership substansially though raising recruits wages would certainly help.

The US are fly enough to have little in the way of welfare or prospects in working class neighbouhoods and are continuing massive cuts in these areas while rapidly raising funds in the army, their 'colleges', advertising campaigns etc so an Army 'college' and carrer in the force is what they use to keep recruits so high and sso creating a 'virtual draft' situation amongst the working class population but them and Britain were stretched to near breaking point in Iraq etc and Bush was even considering the draft but they are trying not to resort to that because that would be likely to make the republicans to be voted out come the next election time.

They already have therapists but sex wouldnt help effectivety in war situations but companions would help them when they arent in on duty or fighting. Im not sure that the taxpayers should cover it, they should use their wages like they are doing now. The US soldiers who done this should undoubtably be punished and never work for the army again but you need to understand that we cant allow our armies to become soft or else we will be the worlds 'b*****s' and will be destroyed.

I think ante has come up with a ploy to make war a thing of the past. I echo his sentiments. Sadly no one will implement it, least of all the US and UK as the biggest arms manufacturers in the world ( albeit only for charitable purposes). I sometimes think it would do the world a lot of good if everyone went into these situations and felt for themselves what happens. Some of your best friends turn into monstors, some of your biddest enemies become your best friend, and thats only at the personal level. You see childhood fears, religious beliefs, political prejudice, assorted irrational fears and infirmities and all sorts of other things come to the surface. A brief blast of fear doesn't do it, you have to live in a situation where you are isolated from people, get little sleep and can trust no-one. It does become truly psychotic. Imagine living in a flat in a neighbourhood that has an extremely bad reputation, that you are encouraging the hostility towards you and that you share the flat with 30 people who are feeling down, homesick, scared, etc.
It's easy to criticise troops from the comfort of your armchair, almost as easy as giving them impossible orders from on high.

First of all you cant expest the US and Britain to be the only two nations to have a 'soft' army and second of all the soldiers are in a bad situation but are you advocating that we totally disregard personal responsibility?

I think armies these days should be trained to be peacekeeping units or armed 'social workers' if you like, rather than killing machines.

Such units would be excellent at deploying relief at both natural and human disaster zones. I am a pacifist, but I do believe there is a role for our armed forces in such incidents.

Respect for civilian life should be an integral part of training for soldiers. They should be taught only to fire weapons at military targets and in self defense. Scandals like Abu Graihb, Fall'uja, and Vietnam must never be allowed to happen again, in which vast numbers of civilians were killed by US forces.

Note that the US military condemned the alleged actions of these American soldiers. The US military shouldn't suffer for the actions of a few individuals.

But even so, I don't see how people can compare the actions of these American soldiers to those of terrorists.
Terrorists commit mass murder against innocent civilians.
The Taliban fighters mentioned in the story were 1. military and not civilian personnel; and 2. already dead.

Personally, I don't think these jihadis need much taunting. Even some made-up story about an American flushing a Koran down a toilet on the other side of the world was enough to cause a riot in Afghanistan in which at least four people died.